After many years of teaching about moral panics, like the most recent one in Scotland, Trans Killers, I’m among the last to believe in any, but these peer-reviewed reports, popping up in my investigations today, all in European Psychiatry, Cambridge University Press, have me thinking.
From: Bridgend “Bebo Internet Suicide Cult” and ritual violence in Wales
Results
Colin Batley, a self-styled Satanist high priest, was sentenced for child sexual abuse alongside 4 others. His son Damien had died through aspiration when filming himself in a “sexual stimulation game”.
Ian Watkins, disgraced singer of “The Lost Prophets”, was sentenced for abusing two babies provided by two “super-fan” mums. Peaches Geldorf tweeted their names, got a tattoo of O.T.O, a Satanist “kinky sex” group and was found dead a year later.
Albert and Carole Hickman were sentenced for sexually abusing an 11-year-old including “sucking blood”.
Matthew Williams cannibalised his victim before being killed with a police taser.
Conclusions
“Hanging” and “Over-dosing” could be the result of suicide or of “being suicided”. The abuse crimes of all three Satanists convicted in the last 15 years in UK courts occurred in South Wales. Associated violent death in the vicinity of the cases and authority irregularities suggest the operation of an “Organised ritualised crime abuse network” posing challenges for psychiatry.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-psychiatry/article/bridgend-bebo-internet-suicide-cult-and-ritual-violence-in-wales/5615595F1A2D285BA55EDEDF2609D596
From: The Satanist Cult of Ted Heath: Ethical Implications of Authority Compromise
Results
The widespread organisational structures parallel the Marc Dutroux case in Belgium. It appears to be the case that compromised mental health professionals and authority representatives shield the cult. It becomes an ethical obligation for the silent majority to speak out against such criminality and demand from their government effective investigation and prosecution.
Conclusion
Whilst an enquiry into historical allegations of institutional abuse is currently underway in the UK several cases emerged recently where satanic cults seemingly continue to be protected by the vested interests. Mental health professionals must stand up for victims and resist ill-conceived authority attempts to persecute abuse survivors and their supporters.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-psychiatry/article/abs/satanist-cult-of-ted-heath-ethical-implications-of-authority-compromise/B7DA4199DECA88CEE721175EC1FBF361
From: Hampstead to Norwich: Ritual violence or coaching?
Introduction
Video-recorded disclosures of two siblings emerged describing ritual violence activities in a Hampstead “cult” including human sacrifice murder. The UK court processes judged that the mother “coached” the children to make false allegations. In parallel, Marie Black, Jason Adams and Michael Roger were found guilty of child sexual abuse purely based on historical accounts of five children.
Results
The disclosures in the Hampstead case were very extreme but similar accounts can be found in books by Sara Scott (UK) and De Camp (US). Those accused of sexual abuse claim that the children have been coached by their mother to make these allegations–the view that the judge adopted. In the Norfolk case, 7 of the 10 defendants were cleared of child sexual abuse allegations but three individuals were found guilty. It remains unclear what the basis was for the conviction as the disclosures could have been classed as the result of “coaching”.
Conclusions
Anyone operating in forensic settings should familiarise themselves with the “hall of mirrors” that cases involving child sexual abuse routinely constitute.
https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-psychiatry/article/from-hampstead-to-norwich-ritual-violence-or-coaching/41E3DDE5DC9F41E60AAA67F5FC594A5D
The author of all three is Dr Rainer Kurz – an unfortunate Heart of Darkness/Apocalypse Now association.
Talking-up Scotland 
I am always sceptical when the media gorge on lurid reports of ‘satanic’ abuse. They treat it as if it were a horror movie, rather than getting to the nub of the issue: were people harmed?
Sadly, abuse of children, women and people with disabilities or just eccentric has been going on for millennia. However, nowadays there is a much more widespread acceptance of the fact that these things happen and that they most commonly occur within families. This gives society the chance to reduce the incidence of these crimes.
The focus on the ‘shock/horror’ approach of the media is that it obscures the fact that it is people who live in our communities and live lives much like ours who perpetrate these things.
In addition, the lurid press sometimes makes it difficult to get a prosecution because defence lawyers can argue that their clients have not had a fair hearing. (No criticism of defence lawyers here – this is their job).
You might remember about 20 years ago, the Orkney Child Abuse Enquiry, with allegations of satanism. This resulted in children being removed from families and moved from Orkney to the Central Belt. This provoked an outcry in the media about families being broken up by ‘officialdom’ who ‘know nothing about Orkney’. Most of the Social Workers involved had been drafted in from the Central Belt because Orkney had insufficient staff for such a large and complex case. No prosecutions for abuse followed. The families involved were all incomers to Orkney from England. Another media trope was xenophobia by Orcadians.
I have two friends who had long careers in Social Work. One was the bridesmaid at my wedding and the other became highly regarded Director of Social Work in a large Scottish region. I have discussed the Orkney case with them on several occasions. Both knew Social Workers who had been involved in the case, although neither had been involved personally. Both are still strongly of the view that abuse of children had taken place on a fairly large scale.
While some of the journalists involved were probably sincere in trying to put together ‘the real story’, others, probably at editorial level were more interested in ‘angles’ and, very likely open to influence by acquaintances who had attended the same school or church, or were anti nationalist, etc.
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‘I have two friends who had long careers in Social Work. One was the bridesmaid at my wedding and the other became highly regarded Director of Social Work in a large Scottish region. I have discussed the Orkney case with them on several occasions. Both knew Social Workers who had been involved in the case, although neither had been involved personally. Both are still strongly of the view that abuse of children had taken place on a fairly large scale.’
Very interesting
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‘I have two friends who had long careers in Social Work. One was the bridesmaid at my wedding and the other became highly I have two friends who had long careers in Social Work. One was the bridesmaid at my wedding and the other became highly regarded Director of Social Work in a large Scottish region. I have discussed the Orkney case with them on several occasions. Both knew Social Workers who had been involved in the case, although neither had been involved personally. Both are still strongly of the view that abuse of children had taken place on a fairly large scale.
Very interesting, thanks
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I have two friends who had long careers in Social Work. One was the bridesmaid at my wedding and the other became highly regarded Director of Social Work in a large Scottish region. I have discussed the Orkney case with them on several occasions. Both knew Social Workers who had been involved in the case, although neither had been involved personally. Both are still strongly of the view that abuse of children had taken place on a fairly large scale.
Very interesting, thanks
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The Police are misogynistic, racist, bigoted and unequal. Thousands die f cases now coming crawling out of the woodwork. Abusive and corrupt. Women are not treated equally but with disrespect and damage.
A Domestic Abuse Act that cannot be dropped or appealed. Women staying in abusive, unsafe places because they cannot get legal aid. Letting agencies illegally charging six months upfront rent plus deposit. Women who cohabit (the majority) do not have equal rights, They can lose the roof over their head, Women are not abused in changing rooms, The majority are abused in their own home by people that they know. Women get legal aid in England so the6 do not lose the roof over their head, The Law was changed recently.
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Apologies for my stammerposting
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